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by_the_bay··on The deadly rise of giant trucks and SUVs
https://xkcd.com/3167/
by_the_bay··on Show HN: File-based cache for slow Python functions
Developer experience
by_the_bay··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2023)
Do you have a comp range for the role?
by_the_bay··on A serverless architecture for high performance financial modelling
Yep you’re looking for https://aws.amazon.com/fargate/
by_the_bay··on Meta Reports Its First-Ever Quarterly Revenue Decline
One can only hope
by_the_bay··on To Ruby from Python
Makes reading ruby so much more difficult. Also optional return statements. If you need to refactor a function, it’s not always obvious that it’s relying on an implicit return and super easy to break things IMO
by_the_bay··on To Ruby from Python
Agreed, in complicated Ruby packages with layers and layers of dependencies it quickly becomes a nightmare to identify which class comes from which import, where it’s defined, etc. Never an issue in python
by_the_bay··on To Ruby from Python
One of my biggest complaints about Ruby is that that it’s so much harder to drop into a debugger. In python it’s as easy as import pdb; pdb.set_trace(), but for ruby (at least the versions on our build systems), you need to figure out how to add the dependency for pry/byebug first which is non trivial.
by_the_bay··on Show HN: Meadowrun automates the tedious details of running Python on AWS/Azure
Cool, look forward to trying it out
by_the_bay··on Show HN: Meadowrun automates the tedious details of running Python on AWS/Azure
If your target workflows are ad hoc jobs, wouldn’t running on lambda make more sense than dealing with the headache of provisioning ec2?